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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 217, NWS Goodland, KS

July 3, 2026Kit Carson County, Colorado

NWS Goodland, KS issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2026, 11:52 PM MDT for Kit Carson County, Colorado. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2026, 11:52 PM MDT (05:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2026, 12:45 AM MDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Goodland, KS
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.5 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Kit Carson County, CO

The radar

The Goodland radar (KGLD), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 265 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1785 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1714 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -1.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Goodland, KS wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 3, 11:42 PM MDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 11:42 PM MDT, 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 8:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 3, 11:48 PM MDT, 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 3, 11:49 PM MDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Goodland, KS issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 8:02 PM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Graham	3 hr
Jul 3, 11:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	27 min
Jul 3, 11:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Logan	26 min
Jul 4, 12:09 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Gove, Logan, Sheridan, Thomas	51 min
Jul 4, 12:16 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	29 min
Jul 4, 12:22 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	23 min
Jul 4, 12:22 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Norton	23 min
Jul 4, 2:12 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Cheyenne, Sherman	48 min
Jul 4, 3:15 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	30 min
Jul 4, 3:43 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Gove	47 min
Jul 4, 3:59 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Cheyenne	31 min
Jul 4, 4:30 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Rawlins	30 min
Jul 3, 7:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	35 min
Jul 4, 12:28 AM MDT	Flash Flood Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	3 hr
Jul 4, 12:44 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	46 min
Jul 4, 1:07 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Kit Carson	38 min
Jul 4, 1:31 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	GLD	Kit Carson, Yuma	44 min
Jul 4, 5:10 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Phillips	20 min
Jul 4, 5:43 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GLD	Yuma	32 min
Jul 4, 5:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GLD	Yuma	62 min
Jul 3, 7:59 PM MDT	Flood Watch	GLD	Dundy, Hitchcock, Red Willow	9 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.